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THE GESTALT of EMERGENCY MEDICINE
The Artist Within The Doctor
By: Fred Wakil, MD
The Gestalt of Emergency Medicine is a reflective, experience-based guide that explores the human, intuitive, and artistic side of emergency medicine rather than focusing on diseases, treatments, or clinical facts. It argues that becoming an exceptional emergency physician requires far more than medical knowledge—it demands sound judgment, intuition, compassion, communication, and resilience.
Unlike traditional emergency medicine textbooks, this book deliberately avoids teaching diagnoses, procedures, or medical protocols. Instead, it examines the underlying thought processes and interpersonal skills that experienced emergency physicians develop over years of practice.
The author’s central concept is the “gestalt” of emergency medicine—the idea that effective emergency care emerges from seeing the patient as a complete picture rather than simply analyzing isolated symptoms or test results. He contends that medicine is an art grounded in science, where intuition and experience complement analytical reasoning.
About The Author
Fred Wakil, MD is a board certified physician who completed his emergency residency in 1984 at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center. He worked in the LA emergency and trauma system for 35 years. Whil…
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Master the art beyond medical knowledge. The Gestalt of Emergency Medicine reveals intuition, compassion, judgment, and resilience essential for exceptional emergency physicians and patient care.
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ISBN 13 (SOFT): 9781665792721
ISBN 13 (eBook): 9781665792738
